Double your impact and help protect the vote

Dear Friend,

At the heart of our faith is the example of Jesus, who rejected all forms of oppression. This election year, oppression is taking the form of voter suppression, especially of people in the most marginalized places who are already seeing disproportionate health and economic impacts of COVID-19.

A series of tactics — including sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service, disinformation campaigns, the threat of failure to timely count mail-in ballots, and voter intimidation tactics — threaten to alter the outcome of the election. 

These tactics directly affect the elderly, students, immigrants, and Black and brown voters. They are modern-day forms of voter suppression. And sadly, use of these tactics is growing. We are calling on every person of faith to take a stand and ensure that we have a safe, free, and fair election.

We are recruiting and deploying pastors and church-based lawyers to protect the election at polling sites in states most at risk — including North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Alabama, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio — through a network of state leaders, congregations, and community volunteers. With a series of webinars, Facebook live events, social media campaigns, and strategy calls, we’re mobilizing voters all across the U.S., but we need your help in these last few weeks to make the most impact possible.

Thanks to a generous donor, all donations will be doubled, up to $50,000, for a limited time.

The right to vote in this nation was won through struggle, but inequity persists. We still see structural barriers to housing, health care, employment, education, and other vital quality-of-life services. Our broken criminal justice system has decimated communities. Horrifying acts of racial violence and police brutality continue.

This is why we all must vote – and why we must protect the vote. Never before have we needed the faith community to come together as we do now, to make sure that every person created in the image of God can participate in our democracy.

This year it is crucial to protect the right to vote and combat misinformation. That is why we are educating, mobilizing, and organizing every day leading up to the election – and preparing now to respond to election outcomes.

By donating to the matching gift challenge today you'll make a direct impact in the lives of those who are struggling to understand how to vote this year or who may be met with unexpected voter suppression tactics when they try to cast their ballots. 

Thank you for supporting Sojourners’ commitment to truth-telling nonprofit journalism, faith-rooted advocacy, and articulating the biblical call to social justice — and training others to do the same!

In solidarity,

Beth Cooper-Chrismon, Sojourners

P.S. Remember, all gifts will be DOUBLED, up to $50,000, and to make the most impact in this year’s election please give by Sept. 30. Thank you!